The Shauna Gillis Prize

Each year, the Department of Languages and Letters awards prizes for the best essays on literary topics.

For full competition details, click here.

Previous Winners

When possible, we arrange to have the winning essay posted here. Click on the links to see the essay.

2001

First Year: Kelly Knickle. "Blood Relations and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Contrasting the Authors' Psychological Schemas of the Family"

Upper Year: Ingrid Grant. "Imagination, Transcendence and Discontent in 'The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland'"

2002

First Year: Elizabeth Jessome. "Frankenstein: Wickedness as a Result of Moral Weakness"

Upper Year: Tammy Byrne. "The Role of Witchcraft and Prophecy in Macbeth."

2003

First Year: Janet Dawson, "Like Gold to Airy Thinness Beat"

Upper Year: Tammy Byrne, "Hamlet and the Ocular Proof"